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=Welcome Year 9 to your Wiki on the industrial Revolution=

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**Mr Clark**
Here is a reminder of the success criteria for the content of your pages:

= Key Events, People and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution =

You need to create a page that gives details about a minimum of THREE important people during the Industrial Revolution. You should include information on their dates (date of birth/death) and their contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

On this page, you also need to identify a minimum of THREE key events during the Industrial Revolution. These events can be the invention of something such as the Spinning Jenny but you must JUSTIFY why you believe it to be a key event. See the example below if you are unsure of what this means:

A key event in the Industrial Revolution was the creation of the Spinning Jenny by James Hargreaves in 1764. This was a key event because it revolutionised the production of cotton as it enabled (allowed) the operator to spin eight threads at once and they only had to turn one wheel. Later this was increased to eighty threads which dramatically increased the speed of production.

= The consequences of the Industrial Revolution =

You need to explain the consequences of the Industrial Revolution under the headings:

Using the resource sheets (available on the lesson plan) and internet research you should aim to create a short paragraph about each consequence of the Industrial Revolution (outlined above).
 * Growth of the Factory System
 * Shift of Population
 * Working Conditions
 * Technological and Transport Developments
 * Rise of the Modern City
 * Environmental Pollution

You should then create a balanced conclusion answering the question: 'Was it a good time to be alive during the Industrial Revolution?'. This means you have to say how it was a good AND bad time to be alive.

= The impact of the Industrial Revolution on children =

Using your work from the lesson on children, you should create a page which explains the following things:


 * The type of work children had to do
 * The dangers children faced completing this work
 * A montage of pictures